STARKVILLE, Miss. –
Mississippi
State placed a total of 47
student-athletes on the 2011-12 Southeastern Conference First-Year Academic
Honor Roll, the league office announced Thursday.

MSU’s 47 honorees tie for the
third-most student-athletes on the list, in the sports in which State
competes.MState placed 11 women's track
and field athletes, eight football players and seven baseball players on the
list to top the school's number. The Bulldogs also had five each from softball
and men's track and field, three from soccer, two from volleyball, men's
basketball and women's golf, and one each from men's and women's tennis on the
league list.